The HELIOS project's goal was to provide an Open Source Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portal platform allowing to test, integrate, configure and maintain all software of a system through an application dashboard. HELIOS will be an open environment based on existing open source software selected by default and that will be able to integrate new components. HELIOS will be able to adapt to user habits and tools and will also allow service providers to develop an associated commercial offer.

Most of existing ALM tools are specialised into one particular field (requirements management, qualification, project management, ...) so the HELIOS project will aim at providing a complete platform covering activities from qualification to maintenance.